THK STORY OF TREMSIN. 93

brought down the lad, and they nurtured him and
gave him the name of Tremsin. They brought up
Tremsin until he became a youth, and then they
gave him a horse, set him upon it, and said to him:
‘Now go out into the wide world and search for thy
father and thy mother!” So Tremsin went out into
the wide world and pastured his steed on the vast
steppes, and his steed spoke to him and said: ‘* When
we have gone a little further, thou wilt see before
thee a plume of the Bird Zhar;+ pick it not up, or

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sore trouble will be thine Then they went on
again. They went on and on, through ten tsardoms
they went, till they came to another empire in the
land of Thrice Ten where lay the feather. And the
youth said to himself: “ Why should I not pick up
the feather when it shines so brightly even from
afar?” And he went near to the feather, and it shone
so that the like of it cannot be expressed or con-
ceived or imagined or even told of in tales. Then
Tremsin picked up the feather and went into the town
over against him, and in that town there lived a rich
nobleman. And Tremsin entered the house of this
nobleman and said: ‘Sir, may I not take service with
thee as a labourer ?”—~The nobleman locked at him,
and seeing that he was comely and stalwart: “ Why
not? Of course thou mayest,” said he. So he took

a We IM Oeloe
4.é@. Burning-bright.